But Tapia, a carpenter, says the idea is not about getting rich, but about getting respect.
He worked on a cattle station, then as a carpenter, then as a civil servant.
Grant, a carpenter before he became a journalist, relished the chance to build something special from the ground up.
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Her father was a carpenter at La Clusaz, a town in the French Alps where she was brought up.
Baus, a carpenter, opened the first Bauhaus store in Manheim, Germany in 1960.
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Consumed by regret, Mr. Cox even started working as a carpenter, building houses while he was trying to rebuild his life.
How it happened that Master Cherry, a carpenter, found a piece of wood that cried and laughed like a little boy.
"I've worked as a carpenter in many places in the world, including the African jungle, but nowhere quite as remote as Antarctica, " he said.
When Moore made his high school football team, Mama, a housewife, and Daddy, a carpenter and World War II veteran, showed up for every game.
Equipped with nothing more than a length of rope and a carpenter's adze, Shackleton and two crew-members successfully completed the journey in 36 sleepless hours.
Barry Chaplin, whose son David was going to start work as a carpenter before he was attacked, said his son is no longer able to work.
The site was conceived and launched in 2005 by Rob Kalin, a carpenter, among other things, who was looking for somewhere to sell his work online.
His father was a carpenter and his mum a milkmaid.
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Florence's prosperous wool industry funded the Opera del Duomo, which offered 200 florins, the equivalent of two years of a carpenter's salary, to the man with the best solution.
Mr. Moosbrugger had the good fortune to have a long-standing relationship with Hermann Kaufmann, a carpenter's son from a nearby village who grew up to become a well-known pioneer of sustainable architecture.
Each painting broke with convention, yet none so violently as "Christ in the House of His Parents, " which depicts the Holy Family as mere owners of a carpenter's shop no Classical drapery, no halos.
The subject of the portrait is of two-year-old Raoul Levert, the son of a carpenter in the French village of Auvers, 25 miles north of Paris, where the artist spent some time before he died.
Imagine that, instead of paying a contractor to pull a team together and keep them on track, you paid an electrician for every outlet he recommends, a plumber for every faucet, and a carpenter for every cabinet.
The character was originally a carpenter.
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Even the surviving Mercury astronauts--a plumpish Wally Schirra, a leathery Scott Carpenter, a frail Gordon Cooper--were there, showing the colors the way they always did when a member of their elite fraternity was setting out on a mission that would kill him or not, but in either event would provide him with that transcendent thrill he got nowhere else.
My name is Kirsten Perry (phonetic), and I'm a recent college graduate. (Applause.) My mom is a teacher and my dad is a disabled carpenter, so needless to say, I have accrued a significant amount of student loan debt.
In a January 2009 appeal, he told an administrative law judge he stopped working as a union carpenter because "I wasn't getting along with a lot of people and I was getting a bad reputation, like I was losing control of, I guess, my nerves, " according to records from a later federal-court hearing.
In 1761, a British carpenter named John Harrison built the first marine chronometer, capable of keeping time on board a rolling boat and providing ship captains with a way to determine their longitude during a voyage.
Being a good carpenter (56% growth, Jesus is still with us) or, for that matter, a good medical secretary (41% growth), takes smarts (actual smarts, not just book smarts), hard work, and dedication.
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The 28 prints are displayed in handmade frames, made by Charlie, who is now a retired carpenter.
Conversely, 2, 000 years ago few could have predicted the success of a small religious group following the teachings of a Nazarean carpenter.
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